When it comes to drilling fluids for horizontal directional drilling and vertical drilling, such as geothermal loop installation or water well drilling, there are a lot of similarities.

Drilling mud — a mixture of water and bentonite clay (usually) we use to advance a borehole into the subsurface.

The National Ground Water Association (NGWA) recently announced the appointment of Chief Executive Officer Kevin McCray, CAE, to the federal Environmental Technologies Trade Advisory Committee (ETTAC).

Robert Carvalho, co-owner of Hanford, Calif.-based West Valley Drilling, started drilling water wells in the mid ‘80s and says he gave up the gig after just three or four years.

April event shows how state groups, others can organize quality events.

As I wrote in my last article, frost and frozen ground has been a problem here in the North forever.

There are many reasons to buy a new rig. It may be a young man (or woman) going into business with their first rig.

Most equipment that we sell is for an individual or a company that we know, or we know the history of the specific equipment.

By the time you read this article, I will have turned 79 years old.

For many of you younger readers, this subject will be historical.